However, Miss Thankful's words as we parted at the door struck me as strange, showing that it would be a little while yet before the full balance of her mind was restored.
"Tell everybody," she cried; "tell Mrs.Packard and all who live in the house; but keep it secret from the woman who keeps that little shop.
We are afraid of her; she haunts this neighborhood to get at these very bonds.

She was the nurse who cared for my brother, and it was to escape her greed that he hid this money.

If she knew that we had found these our lives wouldn't be safe.

Wait till we have them in the bank." "Assuredly.

I shall tell no one." "But you must tell those at home," she smiled; and the beaming light in her kindled eye followed me the few steps I had to take, and even into the door.
So Bess had been the old man's nurse'!.